Do you do the Electric Slide?

[DancingMommy]

If so how often, to what degree, etc... Blah blah blah

**Inspired by the Macarena Poll**

[pygmalion]

Corny but true. I do it, and I'm proud of it. Plus, I add in some spins, ripples and other fun stuff, just to keep things interesting. :D

[Spitfire]

Don't think the Electric Slide is done here anymore; if it is it would most likely be in the bars which I seldom go to.

Of all line dances outside of C&W one Samba line dance and the shim sham shimmy are what I most often see.

[Sagitta]

Unfortunately I cannot answer the poll!!! :( I know what the electric slide is but have never seen it done at places where I've gone. Must have been before my time. If it is like the macerena...I don't know!! I probably would do it if I did my own stuff like Pygmalion, making it my own. :)

[Vince A]

Only right after the macarena!

[DancingMommy]

Corny but true. I do it, and I'm proud of it. Plus, I add in some spins, ripples and other fun stuff, just to keep things interesting. :D

When I worked for a studio here in Orlando, it was part of the party every Weds AND Fri night. I learned some nifty spins, etc... Let's just say that after over a year of 2x/week, I got VERY good at it.

Unfortunately (?) now I'm asked to lead off with it at every wedding/party/etc that has a DJ. Luckily, my hubby knows it too (since he was a student at said studio) including all the variations. 8)

[pygmalion]

Hey! What happened to the teacher/student non-fraternization agreement? Huh? :wink: :lol: :D It's a good thing some people know when to break the rules. :D

Just for the record, it's really nice having you around. :D I hope you make it to the dance on the 19th. I'd love to meet you. :D

[DancingMommy]

Hey! What happened to the teacher/student non-fraternization agreement? Huh? :wink: :lol: :D It's a good thing some people know when to break the rules. :D

Just for the record, it's really nice having you around. :D I hope you make it to the dance on the 19th. I'd love to meet you. :D

Thanks! As far as the student/teacher thingy - I've been pretty scrupulous about not even being over friendly with students. I just lucked out....

It went like this:

I was teaching at XYZ studio, DH started lessons there the week before I started working there. His 1st teacher quit and he got assigned to another teacher <I was jealous - I WANTED HIM AS MINE>, that teacher quit & he got assigned to another teacher <ditto ditto> He got fed up and left (November). By January, we had run into each other so much around town (found out we lived 5 miles away frome each other), we started hangin' out. In February, we started dating... In March we were engaged... In April/May we bought a house... In June we finally got the floor refinished so he could move in.... In September we were married. 8) 8) He was finally MINE MINE MINE (better than getting the commission of his tuition any day if you ask me)!

Fast forward 1 year 9 months... Gabriella Therese was born..... Fast forward another 9 months, we find out that Anabella Cecilia is on her way. In between all that, we've been dancing/training. :)

Edited to add: I've had to tell students not to hang out with me in public because I didn't want to have there be any "appearance of evil" or favoritism. Of course, the owners of XYZ accused me of fraternization and telling my hubby to leave, etc when they found out we were dating. Since they were going to believe whatever anyway, I didn't say much. They are lucky I didn't sue them when I fell in the studio and got injured. :twisted: The looks on their faces when I picked up the last of my stuff (shoes, costumes) with him carrying everything for me was PRICELESS!

[pygmalion]

Good timing, DancingMommy. :D And I know of another couple, now happily married, where he was the teacher, she the student. As you said, the studio management got very upset when they started dating, and he, girlfriend and girlfriend's parents all left the studio in very unfriendly circumstances.

The whole thing seems rather silly to me. If you mix young (or young-ish) attractive people in an activity as intimate as dancing, sometimes love, and I mean true love is GOING to happen. You can require as many contracts as you want, and that won't prevent love and or romance.

BTW, there's a whole thread on this somewhere in the ballroom forum. I won't pull it back up so you don't feel obligated to post something, but it's an interesting read. :D Here's the link.
http://www.dance-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=641

[DancingMommy]

BTW, there's a whole thread on this somewhere in the ballroom forum. I won't pull it back up so you don't feel obligated to post something, but it's an interesting read. :D Here's the link.
http://www.dance-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=641

Oh I don't feel obligated at all :D

[dancersdreamland]

Gotta love the Electric Slide! I enjoy throwing in spins, and knee bends, leg kicks (which I believe I gave counts for in an earlier post somewhere)...ahh, the joys of dance. :wink:

[jpmpaulm]

The Electric Slide is done at every function in South Louisiana (below I-10)where music is played. Mardi Gras Balls, weddings, parties etc. It is especially fun when you are at after Mardi Gras parade dances where all the float riders are still in masks and costumes and can dance with the anonymity that we bad dancers love.
paul

[heartgrl2k]

It appears that I'm the only one who doesn't like this dance at this point in the postings. (Maybe I'm having a bad day...) I voted for doing it under duress. I just think it's boring. I can't stand the Electric Slide song. On the upside, if you want to learn how to line dance, you've got to learn this first.

I prefer the Cleveland Shuffle. It's much more fun to dance and to watch, and the song is much better.

I like the Cha-cha slide too, but there is a version of the song that is like 10 minutes long and it's agony by the end.

[Patapouf]

Yes, why not!

Wouldn't particularly request for it, but if the music comes up, I'd definitely go for it!

[DancePoet]

Nope ... good time for me to sit out and wait for a better tune.

[DWise1]

I saw it done at every command Xmas party when I was drilling with REDCOM San Diego. But that was back in the days when I was a complete non-dancer and incapable of ever learning.

At first, I couldn't figure how everybody knew to do the same thing. Then finally after a few years somebody explained to me that it was a line dance and they told me its name. However, I have no idea where it's taught and I doubt that I ever will need or want to learn it unless it comes up in my upcoming dating career.

In the meantime, I've got the Shim Sham, Dean Collins' Shim Sham (somewhat), the Big Apple (somewhat), and a few country things (er, I mean "thangs", like Cowboy Cha-cha, Queen's Waltz, 10-step, Barn Dance).


EDIT:
Just saw jpmpaulm's post saying how ES is popular in Louisiana and around Mardi Gras time. The Naval Reserve is HQ'd in NOLA (ie, New Orleans; my sailor hat just popped on) and I noticed that Mardi Gras was always observed by the staff at REDCOM, so I would assume that ES is just one more thing they had adopted from NOLA.

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[Vince A]

. . . I doubt that I ever will need or want to learn it unless it comes up in my upcoming dating career . . .
You're "cheap," or is that "easy?"

[DWise1]

Well, if you ask my x2b, I'm certainly not easy.

And it's not that I'm cheap, but rather that I'll be on a fairly tight budget. In trying to plan out my monthly budget, I seemed to keep coming up one paycheck short of a balanced budget. Now next month I'll get to see how that budget plays out in a live-fire situation.


OK, amend my post above, I just learned the Electric Slide tonight. That thing is so simple that it only took the teacher about 5-10 minutes to teach it to a large group. Now I have another one tucked under my belt ready for the opportunity to present itself.

But one thing that confuses me a bit. The entire dance is 4-count moves, except for the quarter-turn scuff step (2 counts) that then go into the grapevine of the next series. Is that how it's supposed to be?

[heartgrl2k]

But one thing that confuses me a bit. The entire dance is 4-count moves, except for the quarter-turn scuff step (2 counts) that then go into the grapevine of the next series. Is that how it's supposed to be?

Yep. Pretty exciting, huh? :roll: (Dripping sarcasm...)

[DWise1]

But one thing that confuses me a bit. The entire dance is 4-count moves, except for the quarter-turn scuff step (2 counts) that then go into the grapevine of the next series. Is that how it's supposed to be?

Yep. Pretty exciting, huh? :roll: (Dripping sarcasm...)

You've got to be careful with dripping sarcasm. It'll eat right through your shoe shine. I had to learn that the hard way.


Yeah, it ain't no Shim Sham, but still joining in is more fun than just standing there.

[DWise1]

So I said to myself, "Self, ... "

But one thing that confuses me a bit. The entire dance is 4-count moves, except for the quarter-turn scuff step (2 counts) that then go into the grapevine of the next series. Is that how it's supposed to be?

I'm just talking to myself for sake of continuity.

I was thinking that since the transition at the end (and leading into begininning it again) was only 2 counts that I might have missed something. However, this description of the steps, http://www.cwdancing.com/linedance/e-slide.htm, shows that I did get it right after all. Guess my Lindy training has me thinking too much about phrasing and lining my steps up on the 1.

[pygmalion]

You've got to be careful with dripping sarcasm. It'll eat right through your shoe shine. I had to learn that the hard way.

Yeah. Me too.


Yeah, it ain't no Shim Sham, but still joining in is more fun than just standing there.

Exactly. 8)